Soffie Modin, who was trapped for hours inside a home after being swept away by the 2004 tsunami, says fewer young people know about the world-changing disaster.

It's been nearly 20 years since a catastrophic tsunami wreaked havoc on at least 12 countries and killed 230,000 people — ...

Planners estimate the number of people ages 85-plus in Southeast Florida to grow by more than 300,000 by 2050 and say it's ...

Petra Nemcova recalled the "split seconds" before her Thailand bungalow was hit by a tsunami that left her with a shattered ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

A strong earthquake has struck Japan’s north-central region of Noto that’s still recovering from a deadly quake early this ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage Supermodel Petra Nemcova was one of many caught in the devastating tsunami ...

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But on Jan. 1, over the course of mere minutes, an earthquake struck under these waters off the Noto Peninsula, churning a tsunami more than 4 meters high that sped toward shore. The prefectural ...

For months, experts were at a loss as to what caused the tsunami observed over a wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean in October last year. No major earthquakes were detected that day. But the Japan ...

What will it take to be ready for the next major tsunami? One of the most wrenching signs of the lack of readiness for the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was the enthusiasm of children, as reported ...